Chicago: Rand McNally, 1969.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A study of the revolutionary rhetoric, and how the philosophical ideals behind the Revolution of 1789 led to the dark days of the Terror. Extensive notes, bibliography, index. 223 pp. ISBN: 0-812234146.

San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - In this journey around the globe, we encounter true heroes including the Dalai Lama; Jane Goodall; the famed dissident of Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi; and Oscar Arias of Costa Rica, who share their historic struggles and show us how to find optimism in the face of anguish, and compassion in the place of animosity. Despite the optimism expressed by these leaders, peace seems ever more elusive in the modern world. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Foreword by Ela Gandhi. Notes, index. xiii, 368 pp. ISBN: 0-062517414.

San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - In this journey around the globe, we encounter true heroes including the Dalai Lama; Jane Goodall; the famed dissident of Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi; and Oscar Arias of Costa Rica, who share their historic struggles and show us how to find optimism in the face of anguish, and compassion in the place of animosity. Despite the optimism expressed by these leaders, peace seems ever more elusive in the modern world. Foreword by Ela Gandhi. Notes, index. xiii, 368 pp. ISBN: 0-062517414.

New York: Harper & Row, (1962) dj. Hardcover first edition - Kohn was an American historian and philosopher, who pioneered the academic study of nationalism. Born into a German-speaking Jewish family in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he fought in World War I serving time in a prison camp, then lived in Paris and London until he and his wife immigrated to the US in 1934. He was also a prominent supporter of a binational solution in Palestine. This book traces the beginnings of nationalism to the French Revolution, but also covers the movement in Asia and Africa, focusing on both the hopes and dangers it can bring. Volume 28 in the World Perspectives series under the general editorship of Ruth Nanda Anshen. Index. xvi, 171 pp.

Garden City, NY: International Collectors Library, n.d. (ca 1970, c 1927.). Hardcover - Biography of perhaps the greatest leader of all times, a man who led his desert tribe of nomads from out of nowhere and conquered half the known world, the scourge of boht Christians and Moslems (a story told in the excellent Russian film "Mongols") Illustrated. Bibliography, index. 268 pp.

New York: Crowell, (1968) dj. Hardcover - An inexpensive printing of this detailed study not just of the events at the death camps themselves but of the factors which led up to them and also of the influence of the course of the war on the implementation of the "final solution." Illustrated with photographs. Notes, index. 769 pp.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1959). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Written shortly before his scheduled release from prison in Mexico (after serving a 20 year sentence), this is an account of the life and psychology of Leon Trotsky's assassin, Russian agent Ramon Mercader (also known as Jacques Monard.) Based partly on interviews with the assassin conducted by Alfonso Quiroz Cuaron, the psychologist for the Mexican Dept of Justice. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper to Herschel Williams (presumably the Medal of Honor winner) with the comment "With memories of the days when one had faith in the struggle for liberty" and signed Don and dated in 1960 in Mexico City. Sources and Notes, index. xvii, 236 pp.

New York: Putnam, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Book written to mark the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Index, notes and an appendix that discusses the images of Hiroshima in film and books.425 pp. ISBN: 0-399-140727.

New York: Praeger, 1969. dj. Hardcover - History of Henry IV, the first of the Bourbon kings of France who succeeded to the throne in 1589. Illustrated. Chronology, short bibliography and index. 206 pages.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, (1997). Hardcover first edition - A book which reassesses the transition from paganism to Christianity - "many pagan practices persisted in the Christian church for hundreds of years after Constantine proclaimed Christianity the one official religion of Rome. . .[Macmullen] shows that the two religious systems were both vital during an interactive period that lasted far longer than historians have previously believed. . .; he demonstrates that pagan beliefs were not eclipse or displaced by Christianity but persisted or were transformed." Extensive notes, bibliography, index. vi, 282 pp. ISBN: 0-300071485.

New York: Cornell University Press, 1968.

New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. dj. Hardcover first edition - A fresh look at one of the most charismatic figures of the Italian Renaissance. Illustrated with maps and photographs in full color. Notes, bibliography, index. xvi, 336 pp. ISBN: 0-19-5177487.

New York: The Free Press, 1998. dj. Hardcover - The story of the mysterious friendship between Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli that changed history and almost accomplished one of the most ambitious plans of the city-state of Florence (Leonardo's concept to build a system of canals that would make the Arno River navigable from Florence to the sea, a project begun in 1504.). Roger Masters, a distinguished historical scholar, reconstructs this project and its failure, fills in many details of the relationship between the two giants of the Renaissance, and raises tantalizing questions on how history might have taken a different course had the project succeeded. Masters's reconstruction is both fascinating and plausible. Illustrated. Extensive notes, sources, index. 278 pages. ISBN: 0-684-844524.

New York: Basic Books (HarperCollins), (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book by the chief engineer of the Chernobyl nuclear plant at the time of its construction (in 1970) which "relates the grim aftermath of the 1986 disaster and the attempted cover-up by the Gorbachev regime. Medvedev. . . emphasizes that authorities knew about, and covered up, pre-Chernobyl nuclear accidents and near-accidents (particularly the Chelyabinsk explosion in the late 1950s), and he indicates that a combination of secrecy, neglect, ignorance, and bureaucratic callousness prevented responsible officials from anticipating or doing much about potential accidents at other Soviet nuclear facilities." (Kirkus Reviews) Translated from the Russian by Evelyn Rossiter. Introduction by David Marples. Index. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-465051146.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (1998). First edition - This second book of letters by this Polish writer starts with Michnik briefly in prison at the height of the "cold civil war" between authorities and citizens in Poland, then released. "Through his continuing essays, articles, and interviews, the reader can follow all the momentous changes of the last decade in Poland and East-Central Europe. Some of the writings have appeared in English in various publications; most are translated here for the first time." Included are interviews] with Czeslaw Milosz, Vaclv Havel, and Wojciech Jaruzelski. A title in the Society and Culture in East-Central Europe series. Translated by Jane Cave. Foreword by Ken Jowitt. Photographs, guide to events and people, index. xxxiii, 348 pp. ISBN: 0-520217608.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second book, based on hours of interviews with "Joseph Pallehner" (the fictitious name of a real person) which begins shortly after World War II, when Pallehner, a Czech-German prisoner, is sent to Prague's Leopoldov prison through bureaucratic error. Convicted of collaboration with the enemy during World War II, Pallehner is sentenced to six years in prison. It is also the story of other prisoners caught up in the labyrinth - the bureaucratic and political maze of post World War II Eastern Europe - and is a testimony to the crimes of nations against individuals - and reminder of a human being's ability to triumph over any conditions. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-87113070X.

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1938. dj. Hardcover first edition - A critical appraisal of his country's devastingly inadequate readiness for the coming war - World War II. viii, 295 pp.

New York: Harper Collins, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which uses the naval battle of Trafalgar, fought between the British and Franco-Spanish fleets in October 1805 "to examine our idea of heroism and the heroic.. . This was a battle fought for the control of a global commercial empire. It was won by the emerging British world power, which was widely condemned on the continent of Europe as 'the arrogant usurper of the freedom of the seas'." Includes a section of full color illustrations, bibliography and index. xxiv, 341 pp. Uncommon wraparound dust jacket features oversized double foldouts on both the front and rear flaps to show a panoramic image of the famous battle. ISBN: 0-060753617.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c.1946.

London: George Allen & Unwin, (1984). Hardcover first edition - Number 5 in the London Research Series in Geography. Illustrated with photographs and maps. Notes, bibliography, index. xix, 115 pp. ISBN: 0-047100028.

Manhattan: University Press of Kansas, 1970.

New York: Appleton, 1974. Hardcover first edition - viii, 462 pages plus 10 pp of advertisements.

New York: Tarcher Perigee / Penguin, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book by one of the "big picture" thinkers - an "erudite, tough-minded, and far-reaching manifesto. Never has the world seemed so completely united - in the form of communication, commerce, and culture - and so savagely torn apart - in the form of war, financial meltdown, global warming, and even the migration of diseases." Notes, bibliography, index. x, 674 pp. ISBN: 978-1585427659.

London: Printed for W. Sharpe and Son, Allason and others, 1820. Hardcover - Volume XII only in the complete works of Robertson, complete in itself. A history of ancient India starting with Romans through the establishment off Portuguese in East Asia. Large folded map tipped onto page in between the two title pages. Includes an appendix, notes and illustrations, index. v, 402 pp.

Boston: Beacon, 1966. Illustrated.